Adjustable shade or curtain holder.



No. 876,738. PATENTED JAN, 14, 1908. v G. 1-". SHERMER.

ADJUSTABLE SHADE OR'GUR'IAIN HOLDER.

APIfLIOATION FIiI-IDJUNE 28, .1907- INVENTOI? WITNESSES flw M W Z 0 a scribed hereinafter and GEORGE FRANKLIN SHERMER, or COLUM IlST/OHIO.

ADJUSTABLE OR CURTAIN HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1908.

Application filed June 28,1907. Serial No. 381.227.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE FRANKLIN SHERMER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Adjustable Shade or Curtain Holder, -of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to curtain holders or brackets such as used for supporting the rollers of shades or curtains hung at windows.

More specifically, the invention concerns the construction of an adjustable t e of bracket for this purpose, employing a s 0t in which an adjustable bracket piece runs.

The object of this invention is to simplify the construction and means for mounting the said bracket piece in the slot.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts to be more fully departicularly set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the upper portion of a window casement to which the invention has been applied; Fig. 2 is a perspective of one of the devices, representing the same as removed; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal horizontal section taken through one of the devices; Fig. 4 is a perspective illustrating the form of a bracket which constitutes a feature of the invention; Fig. 5 is a perspective of a stud which constitutes a feature of the invention; and Fig. 6 is acentralcross section through a bracket of a slightly I'nodified form.

Referring more particularly to the parts, 1 represents the window casement to which the invention is applied. In applying the invention, at each sideof the easement at the upper portion thereof I provide cleats 2. Between these cleats a roller 3 is supported carrying a shade 4 of the usual type. This .roller 3 is supported between brackets 5 which are adjustably carried in the cleats. The construction of the cleats and brackets is very clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Each cleat consists of an elongated plate 6 which is adapted to be attached in a horizontal position to the face of the easement by screws applied in suitable openings 7. The middle or central portion of the plate 6 is pressed or dished outwardly 'so as to constitute aguideway or guide 8, and this guide is formed with a longitudinally disposed slot 9 extending continuously from end to end thereof as shown.

The body of each bracket 5 is disposed at right angles to the cleat, and is formed with an opening 10, to receive the gudgeon or pin of the roller. The bracket shown in Fig. 2 is 5 provided with an opening 10 of circular form, while the i bracket at the other end of the roller has an openin 1 l of the form shown in Fig. 4, where thisj ot er bracket is illustrated in perspective. Each bracket is provided 7 with a tongue 12 which is integral with the body of the bracket and slides u on the outer face of the guide 8 as shown. The tongue of each bracket is provided with an opening 13,

and adjacent to this 0 ening the material off the tongue is struck ownwardly therefrom so as to form an inwardly projecting car 145 which extends into the slot 9 as shown in Fig. 3. These brackets are formed of a plate or blank of sheet metal bentto the reguired 0 screwed, and this thumb-head or nut 17- affords means for clamping the edges of the slot 9 between the head 18 of the stud and the nut. In order to keep the stud from rotating, its edge is provided with a notch 19 which receives the inwardly, rojecting" ear 14, as indicated in Fi 3. ith this construction, it will be evi cut that the brackets ma be adiusted to any position in the slots an secure y clamped by'meansof th'e nuts 17. These nuts have knurled exteriors which facilitate their being operated by the fingers.

Special attention is called to the presence 10o of the ears 14, which projeet into the slots and cooperate with the stud 16 to hold the brackets in proper alinement on the cleats when the are being adjusted.

Instea of makin the bodies of. the brack} I05 ets of flatform as s own iii Figs. 2 and 3,-I may give them the form shown in Fig. 6, in wlnch the bodies of the brackets aredished as indicated at 19, to receive the ends of the roller. In other respects, the bracket shown no in this figure is constructed similarly to the brackets of the preferred form.

On the threaded 5" Special attention is called to the ointati -which the ear 14 isstruck from-the. ody of the bracket. By forming it so that the en- 'ing left in the material extends to the 0 ded edge or angle of the bracket, the material at the bending point is cut down and thework in the dies is much reduced. Attention is also drawn to the fact that the ear is formed on the interior and not at the edge of the bracket; this simplifies the form of the blank and saves waste of stock.

Having thus described claim as new and desire to Patent:

A curtain or shade holder my invention, I secure by Letters having a guide cleat with a longitudinal guide slot therein, a

plate having a tongue bracket formed of a ,l} ing against the face of said cleat, and connected by ;a bend to the bodyof the bracket, said tongue havin an ear struck inwardly from the material .t ereof projecting into the said slot, the ope formed b striking out said ear'havi ar i difge atsaid end whereby the forming o saidtongue is facilitated, a bolt having a-head engaging said ear venttrotation of said bolt, said bolt ha a shank extending u through said 8101131 1 5 a nut on said shank or cla ing said bracket.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of 30 'two subscribing witnesses GEORGE FRANKLIN SHERMER.

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